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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Colonial powers"”.
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… is directly tied to the impact of former colonial powers on newly independent postcolonial states. This thesis analyzes the relationship between nationalist violence, British colonial and neo-colonial policies, and Cyprus' geostrategic location within the imperialist world system. By …
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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return
<p>In this thesis, I trace how colonial powers fragment and silence Palestinian knowledge practices as another mode of genocide. And locate silences (Trouillot 1995) by analyzing how colonial powers confiscate land, farming tools, and criminalizes Palestinians from foraging in an aim to disrupt any …
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The Basis of Angolan Nationalism
… period, and its government boasts that a colonial philosophy different from the other colonial powers in Africa is at work. The Portuguese speak of a "civilizing mission," "cultural assimilation," and the "Lusitanization of its colonies. The determination of Portugal to see its policies …
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Dutch and British Colonial Policies in the East Indies (1795-1824)
… in to the development of the colonies and colonial policies of the British and the Dutch in the East Indies . The rivalry played out in the East Indies between England and Holland took place under against the backdrop of Europe engulfed in Napoleonic war, and the political mechinations and …
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Lament: A Novel
… T’Rayles returns to the streets of the colonial city, Seventhblade, to hunt down the woman who put its destruction into play. The daughter of an Indigenous Ibinnashae and an immortal who walks the north, T’Rayles is considered an abomination, a halfsoul, and is shunned by both the First …
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An analysis of the land issue as portrayed in selected novels by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… the land issue, particularly its usurpation by colonial powers and why loss of land is the cause of African nationalism as a counter to the colonial experience.
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Writing of the Americas
… post-contact systems that show the extent of colonial powers. This paper also discusses the writing systems that are still in use and their community's development of revitalization tools and resources. The writing systems of the Americas are an integral part of history, showcasing the people …
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South African foreign policy in Africa
… this thesis under two headings; policy towards colonial Africa (broadly, the period 1910 - 1959) and secondly, policy towards independent Africa (1960 - ). The division is by no means an absolute one. South Africa first began to feel the pressures of decolonization soon after the end of the …
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Daughter of another
… in the mainstream but still perpetuates the colonial and white-supremacist mindset i.e. "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sara J Maas. This novel, Daughter of Another, uses the mythos and tales from marginalized communities across the United States, similar to "Fire Keeper’s Daughter" by …
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Exploring Enslaved African Lifeways: An Isotopic Study of an 18th Century Cemetery (SE600) on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
… and dry climate, it was generally ignored by colonial powers as a plantation island. First colonized by the Dutch in 1636, Statia would change hands 22 times between the 17th and 19th centuries. The island’s free port made it a cornerstone of trade in the colonial Caribbean. The thriving trade …
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The role of private primary school education in Barbados : a case study of Vale Preparatory School
… by a number of factors, some imposed by former colonial powers and now perpetuated, by the current government and some generated by economic, political and socio-cultural factors. Societies like Barbados, undergoing change and development, are often characterized by an interplay between the …
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Community development trusts: brokering property rights on ‘communal' land in the Richtersveld
… is mobilised to justify or resist dispossession. Colonial powers invoked problematic ideas of the property rights of indigenous people to justify land dispossession through trusts. The British empire was particularly well-versed in this, adopting a trusteeship model whereby indigenous land was …
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The Impact of Homeland Politics on the National Identity of Palestinians Reflected in the Diaspora
… over the course of the transition between colonial powers. Emigrants were affected differently under each political administration. Select cases of Diaspora Palestinians are chosen and differentiated by the date of departure from the homeland, to compare the political situation during that …
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Traditional leaders in South Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
… traditional leaders do not like because it is of colonial imposition), and the lowest rung called the Headman or junior traditional leader. Traditional rulers required no special training as they were qualified for office by their ansestry alone; a king is a king because he is born to it. …
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Coloniality, Violence, and Intergenerational Trauma among Displaced Syrians
… trauma is through violence against children. A decolonial lens has been used to understand intergenerational transmission of trauma in Indigenous communities in the US (Brave Heart, 2003; Faimon, 2004; Walters & Simoni, 2002), linking present-day issues with histories of mass colonial violence. …
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Various forms of colonialism : the social and spatial reorganisation of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
… Over the last number of centuries, various powers have tried to dominate the Brao and Brao spaces, including the Khmer, Lao and Siamese, followed by the French, Japanese, Vietnamese, Americans, Lao (royalist and communist), Khmer (royalist and communist), and the present-day Lao and …
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An evaluation of the work of archdeacon William Percival Johnson in Nyasaland (1876-1928)
… dramatically, with the arrival of the European colonial powers. It will be shown that the life of Johnson provided a datum line by which to measure the true worth of one small Christian mission to one, relatively small, African state.<br/><br/>This submission will show that in Nyasaland, the …
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Common ground: Nature, gender and labor in representations of rural communities in Spanish literature, 1895-1920
… when Spain's place relative to other European colonial powers was in sharp decline and the nation was further disgraced by its failure to keep up with the processes of modernization that were boosting the power and influence of foreign countries. My analysis of the representation of commoning …
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… and Maria Tymoczko) on the links between colonialism and translation. Translations of skaldic poetry provide a particularly suitable basis for the investigation of translation as a place of cultural interface. The complexity and subtlety of this poetry make it notoriously difficult to …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
… were perceived as unseen participants of colonial processes. To this end indigenous perspective of history has been absent from the main corpus of historical literature. Despite the distorted nature of imperial history, which portrayed Micronesians as poor savages, and unsophisticated …
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